Over the weekend, hundreds of nude photos of celebrities were leaked on 4chan before spreading to multiple Internet sites, with one of the involved hackers pointing towards iCloud as the source of the material, which quickly led to accusations of a flaw in iCloud as the reason for the leak.
The Shortcut reports the FBI opposition to Apple's encryption, covers the EFF's approval of it, and reports Apple's discontinuation of on-device CSAM scanning.
Running out of storage is annoying, but you have options.
Since 2019, Apple has routinely scanned incoming and outgoing mail for CSAM.
But how many times can the password be guessed? The most secure sites have a three or five try maximum before you get locked out for a while.
The last Apple 'hack' I read involved compromising the email account that the 'forgot password' reset email would go to. There's usually several accounts/steps required to successfully get into these things, not just a single service flaw.